Shaping the future: perspectives in research on, and the teaching of, urban design

like even a short time from now, such as in five or ten years (Banerjee, Loukaitou-Sideris, 2011; Carmona, Tiesdell, Heath, Oc, 2010; Carmona, 2014; Friedmann, 2010). A theme that will very probably be prominent in urban design studies will be that of urban health, as it intersects many questions that are central in the disciplines studying built environments at different scales (Saunders, 2017; Sepe, 2019). The first part of the present essay will focus on research on urban health, the other on aspects relative to the teaching of this subject.